Wise Monks, I am looking for a way to write a perl script which will be compiled into a standalone executable which will take another perl script as a parameter and run it against the standalone Perl. It will run on Windows clients, not having Perl installed. This is a requirement. For example, using Strawberry Perl and Per2Exe (I can't get pp to install correctly). I have a script called runperl.pl looks something like this: 
$ret = `$^X $ARGV[0]`;
or
system('$^X $ARGV[0]');

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I want to make it into a standalone exe and then pass it a script (runperl.exe dostuff.pl), where dostuff.pl runs on the standalone interpreter/compiler. Using standard system command (e.g. $foo = `perl bar.pl`;) compiles but can't find "perl". Using the variables in the example above won't even compile. Note: I can't put Strawberry on the client machines, it's too large. I'm looking to drop an executable that is small like 10MB or much smaller.

In reply to perl standalone to run perl script as a parameter by eammendola

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